Also when using gnome or kde come to think of it the speed is not very impressive, its nowhere near as quick as windows (Yea I know I bet that upsets a few people..!! ) I suspect it should be far quicker,
You are not the first to notice this. I too was surprised when I first got into Linux. There are many reasons but perhaps the most important factor affecting the apparent speed of ''Windows'' is the windows manager. The slimmer this is the faster the GUI operates. If you use a window manager like fvwm95 (which sort of emulates a windoze 95 GUI) you will obtain similar performance to W95. Gnome is a more complex windows manager and therefore takes a bit longer to do what it does. KDE is even more complex and takes longer still. Try all three and you will see what I mean.
Ian
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